Best male vocals on a song ever.

Brad Delp - anything

 

Anna or This Boy - Lennon
Too Much Time or Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles - Beefheart

 

Here's another stunning one from Frank:

 

An American Trilogy. By The King. No questions asked.

 

Normally I can never pick a "best" anything but Carl Wilson's vocal performance on "I Can Hear Music" really does it for me.

 

Maybe Peter Gabriel's "Come Talk To Me" on the live album.

 

Vince Gill on "The Warmth of the Sun"

 

Freddie Mercury's one take on "The Show Must Go On" is rock's greatest vocal performance.

 

This is definitely up their on the list for me:

 

I could choose something by Sex Pistols (*anything* from Never Mind the Bollocks) - but that would be obvious, unfair to other artists and it would be a sucker-punch. Therefore, I'm going with this:

 

Love Reign O'er Me

 

The Righteous Brothers

 

I've always loved Lou Gramm's vocal performance on Foreigner's I Want to Know What Love Is. Brilliant.

 

--Scott Walker: so many to choose from, Walker Bros & solo, let's go with "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"

--Sammy Davis, Jr.: a song from his 1966 album "Sammy Davis, Jr. Sings and Laurindo Almeida Plays", such as "Speak Low" or "Where Is Love"

--Frank Sinatra: a song from his 1967/69 albums now on the 2010 comp "Sinatra / Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings"

 

Anything Maynard James Keenan does with the band Tool.

I'll have to add 'the band' within the sentence for rather obvious reasons...

 

Beach Boys - "The Warmth of the Sun".

 

Springsteen - Something In The Night, Streets Of Fire, The Promise (unreleased "grand refrain" version)

 

Kurt Cobian-where did you sleep last night

 

That's beautiful. I can't believe I haven't come across this until now. Glad you posted it.

 

Roy Orbison : Gigolette

 

Ozzy Osbourne - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

 

Maybe I'm Amazed - McCartney
Golden Slumbers - The Beatles (McCartney)
A Day In The Life - Beatles (Lennon part)
God - Lennon

 

Art Garfunkel--99 Miles from LA
Todd Rundgren--Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel
Danny O'Keefe--Angel Spread Your Wings

 

It really is a tragedy what Colonel Tom Parker did to Elvis and robbed the world of maybe what could have been.
We will never know for sure but Parker was a snake.